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'8 Mile' and 'Die Hard' Reimagined as 50s French Classics
Filed under: Fandom », Trailers and Clips »
If you like classic French movies like I like classic French movies -- and get a kick out of modern-day interpretations of same -- then check out the clips below. (Go ahead, I'll wait.) In their original incarnations, neither Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile nor John McTiernan's Die Hard: With a Vengeance scream out "50s!!! 60s!!!" or "France!!!," but, nonetheless, they're the type of clips, courtesy of Buzzfeed, that set the imagination soaring,
Fair warning: the fairly lengthy clips (almost four minutes each) are part of a viral campaign for Stella Artois beer. The marketing message is kept to a minimum. With 8 Kilometres, it's the idea of a rap battle taking place in a beatnik bar between two hepcats with a cool jazz band in the background, filmed in black and white. Instead of a heated war of words, it's more like a rather cordial exchange of philosophies. The lead actor is no Eminem, but who is?
Dial Hard moves the action to a colorful coastal city in 1963, with a perky tune playing in the background. Instead of Bruce Willis as McClane and Jeremy Irons as the evil bomber Simon, we get "Inspector Jean Meglain" playing a game of cat and mouse via telephone with "Simone." In this version, Inspector Meglain has a different set of priorities
After the jump: Dial Hard.
Fellini + Eminem = Genius
Filed under: Classics », Drama », Foreign Language », Fandom », Cinematical Indie »
Ok, so this isn't exactly a mash-up, but it's a piece that brings together two things that have no business sharing the same screen-space, and makes them fit incredibly well. Everyone, meet 8 1/2 Mile, a trailer for Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2, set to the soundtrack of Eminem's Lose Yourself. I'm totally going to lose all my credibility as a snobby lover of foreign films here, but I have to admit that it gave me chills. Sure, it's not the best representation of what, exactly, the movie is about, but what trailer is? It creates a wildly effective atmosphere, and the editing is perfect. Plus, you get to look at the wonderful Marcello Mastroianni -- basically, there are a lot of worse ways to spend two-and-a-half minutes on a Saturday. (Of course, if the end result is that you, like me, find yourself seized by a desperate need to go watch 8 1/2, the time commitment is going to be a little longer.)Edit: The original link stopped working; links now point to a reliable site.
Eminem Has Gun, Will Travel
Filed under: Action », Casting », Paramount », Newsstand », Remakes and Sequels »
When I first read that Eminem was going to play Paladin in a big-screen version of Have Gun - Will Travel, my primary thought was how incredibly modern Eminem looks. It's impossible for me to imagine the guy even wearing a cowboy hat, let alone playing a gunfighter in the American West. Well, it turns out that I needn't have been concerned -- Paramount are updating the story to the modern day, and Paladin has been turned into, yes, a bounty hunter. Oh, hooray. So, basically, the movie will have nothing whatsoever to do with the TV show, apart from the character's name? Got it.According to the rapper's representatives, studios have been all over his proverbial jock since 8 Mile came out but he's been cautious about choosing a follow-up project, wanting to pick one that kicks a particularly large amount of ass. One thing they've likely been looking for is a screenplay without a music-related theme, and this one fits the bill -- I can officially report that Paladin is NOT a rapper. Eminem will likely, however, be involved in the movie's soundtrack, so the movie will probably not be an entirely rap-free zone.
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